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It's more about how the buyers intend to use the media themselves.

The Ellisons are personal friends of Trump and Netanyahu. Netanyahu has spoken repeatedly about media as a weapon, e.g. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3tdrO8bA7rs. Ellison is the largest individual donor to the IDF. Trump handed Tiktok to Ellison.

The bid is backed by Kushner (i.e. Trump) and their Saudi allies.

He’s the largest individual donor to the IDF.

That happened in Frontiers in Endocrinology?

I know someone who was in a similar situation at your child’s age, in the Stanford CS program. He was able to pause his studies and secure some kind of agreement he could come back when he felt ready. He worked on his issues for about 15 years, barely making enough to pay rent. But then he went back and finished, subsequently got better jobs, and now he’s retired at age 49.

Just to share that option.

It still matters for life and disability insurance.

There’s a full-color dimming filter in Accessibility -> Zoom -> Zoom Filter -> Low Light. You can assign it to the accessibility shortcut for quick access.

Not AI, at least not for the composition process. It algorithmically combines a library of loops using genre templates:

https://napolitano.de/2021/11/12/soundraw-ai-music-creation-...

Agree on both points, and quite possible the “small financial firms” thing the OP has been doing is a targetable niche.

When I was younger I tried the generalist consultant thing. Did a bunch of interesting jobs and patted myself on the back for being able to tackle so many different types of problems, stacks, stages of the business, etc. It actually was really fun.

To my surprise though, as I got more and more general the rates I could demand got lower and lower, even though I had all these successful projects and good references etc. I finally picked up on the fact that the only companies who would consider a generalist either didn’t know what they were doing, or couldn’t afford an expert in the specific skills they needed.

Decided to specialize in something in-demand, and life got a lot easier.

I forgot which numbers I saw, but yeah their overall rate is high. The problem is that so many of the remaining unvaccinated are elderly, so if they start getting sick they’ll get it bad and overload the system.

That’s not how it works. Plenty of negative stuff shared online.

That’s the question a lot of people seem to have, but think about it: they’ve already bought themselves 2 extra years of vaccine + therapeutics development, and beefing up of medical infrastructure. There’s no way they can do lockdowns forever, and they’re open about that in all the media. But there’s a point in those other trends at which opening up becomes millions of times less dangerous, and we’re just not there yet.

Ok, so conspiracy theory logic.

Sounds like they’re only advocating incremental improvements to the current policy?

Compare China death rates over the pandemic to basically anywhere else. If saving 5-10 million lives (estimated based on % of US population lost to Covid) doesn’t count as working, what would?

Sadly that logic doesn’t work here, though it’s tempting. There’s a portion of the population that refused vaccines, due to a combination of factors including misinformation. Omicron going wild would put millions of elderly people into the hospitals, jamming up the healthcare system and leading to millions more excess deaths.

Where is the evidence that it didn’t work?

China is on Earth, not in some other solar system. If their excess deaths per capita were a fraction of the numbers in the West, there would be no way to hide it.

I’m in Shanghai too. It’s a city of 25+ million people: there will be some bad stories. But overall it is running remarkably and the vast majority of people aren’t thinking about how oppressed they are by having to eat fish. They’re helping each other and encouraging each other, because they know the cost of not doing this is millions of lives.

In a similar vein, there’s one called brain.fm which I’ve used for years now and it gets me in the zone every time.

My favorite talent of hers is galvanizing people so crisply into “decent” vs “self-important and looking for an easy target on the internet”.

Every interaction I’ve had with them over 15 years has been above-and-beyond helpful. It’s been so nice to see the market catch on to them.

I’ve worked primarily with Chinese for years, both inside and outside of China. They consistently poke fun at and speak thoughtfully about the government and policy. It’s possible they just had learned to avoid being baited by westerners looking to confirm a certain narrative.

His alien thought experiment in the “Political Takeaway” section at the bottom is a masterpiece. If you’ve struggled to explain where science lost democracy, this must be as crisp as it’ll ever be described.

Parsons knew what he was doing, he won’t be embarrassed. It’s a Trumpian move to stir up resentment against the “liberal media” – not something meant to be evaluated critically.

The choice isn’t between perfect rationality and hypocrisy, it’s between useful norms and harmful ones. People of every intelligence level defer some decision making to the community and culture, it’s how the species moves forward without having to constantly rethink and re-explain.

Right now it’s likely better to have people wearing masks too often than the other way around.

More dangerous routes on a more regular basis (committed to commuting on roads with cars), and mountain biking:

https://www.cyclehelmets.org/1261.html

Biking could indeed be even safer in the Netherlands if people wore helmets:

https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/neur.2020.0010

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00014...

Arguing that it’s a small optimization is one thing, but that doesn’t mean it’s “not needed”.

VR: https://www.vrfitnessinsider.com/best-high-intensity-vr-fitn...

You can burn 600 calories/hr just flying through sparkly disco wormholes. That’s comparable to running, but an hour feels more like 20 minutes.

Anyone know the best legal way in the US to prevent yourself from being kept alive if you end up conscious but completely paralyzed? I know living wills can handle some medical scenarios, but I’m having trouble finding an answer on locked-in syndrome. Wondering if I’d need to form a euthanasia pact with a friend or something.

Seconding Hello Chinese as a fantastic app. But I just want to share the apparently unusual-around-here experience that Duolingo was one of my best tools for learning and retaining Chinese vocab. I suspect it’s because the whole experience is fine-tuned to be vivid across so many sensory dimensions; when I remember a word I learned in Duolingo I can often also remember the exact place I was standing when I learned it. That does not happen for me with Anki or Hello Chinese. It could depend on brain type or something but I don’t think their success is purely a fraud.